Photo Kano game gets anime

A television anime adaptation of Kadokawa Games, Enterbrain, and Dingo’s Photo Kano PSP dating simulation game has been officially announced. MADHOUSE is animating the anime, and the television stations TBS and BS-TBS will run it. Akitoshi Yokoyama (Marimo no Hana: Saikyō Butō-ha Shōgakusei Densetsu) is directing and supervising the series scripts, and Mae Shimada is designing the characters.

In the game, the player is an ordinary second-year high school student named Kazuya Maeda who gets a single-lens reflex camera at the end of summer vacation. He begins taking pictures of the girls at his school, and the photos may lead to romance.

The cast of the anime will include:

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Kazuya Maeda

Kanae Itō as Haruka Niimi

Mai Nakahara as Aki Muruto

Hisako Kanemoto as Mai Sakura

Kaori Mizuhashi as Hikari Sanehara

Chiwa Saito as Nonoka Masaki

Asuka Ōgame as Rina Yunoki

Miyuki Sawashiro as Tomoe Misumi

Mariya Ise as Kanon Maeda

Aya Endo as Momoko Ōtani

The official website for Shufunotomo’s Seiyū Grand Prix magazine had listed the game under the “Featured TV Anime Interviews” section of the next-issue preview in May, only to remove that reference before the issue actually shipped.

Enterbrain’s Famitsu website also reports that a new version called Photo Kano Kiss will arrive on the PS Vita next spring with improved graphics and game system, as well as a newly added scenario. The new “Love Love Days” scenario will depict the week after the confession of love from the main game.